Saturday, August 23, 2008

Visting Rolf's new house, job, view and dog

We went to Shiprock, New Mexico, two days ago to visit our son Rolf, who is doing Teach for America there and his wife Kristy, second from right in the photo, who is working on community mental health and counseling psychology, which she is doing a Ph.D. in.

This is Rolf, Sandy, Kristy and our son Chris, in Rolf's new classroom, where he is teaching twenty some third graders (roughly eight years old). He seems to like it so far. (He taught last year in Harlem, so this is his second year of Teach for America, which seems to be a very good program.) Here is what he is teaching. (Local people come in to teach the Navajo language and culture part.)


Rolf and Kristy have a two bedroom apartment supplied for teachers on the Navajo Reser- vation, since otherwise, only Navajo are supposed to live, or at least own land, there. They just barely moved in the day we came, but they had a new dog, a "blue" (grey) pit bull named Smiley, who you can see here with Rolf. She seems to be a very friendly, sweet-tempered dog.




They also have an amazingly nice view from their backyard. You can see THE Shiprock for which the town is named (its real name is The Stone with Wings in Navajo, Tse' Bit'ai) in the distance, and they have very nice sunsets. Here is a view of Shiprock and the desert horizon, taken from in back of their duplex apartment.

1 comment:

LivelyClamor said...

How exciting!!!
Wonderful opportunity!
I love New Mexico -- having grown up in Santa Fe, I'm totally biased. :)